Top 5 tall bearded iris
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Comments (5)Thank you IG; I guess you must be right. For one thing, I found the following description for Everything Plus at Heritage Irises: 'but it's problem is that it is not overly tall, and the branching begins right at ground level and works its way up through 4 branches, the lower branch is quite long, coming up almost even with the top branch, I call it the menorah candelabra effect'. I haven't walked out to check precisely, but my iris is indeed a little short and a lower bloom was near ground and seemed unusual. (edit: and now three blooms at once, very nice and low to ground) This post was edited by chas045 on Tue, May 6, 14 at 10:55...See Morethird annual bearded iris swap
Comments (66)Hello ladies, Sorry I've not been a very good host. I've been real busy with working both of my jobs, running to Greenbay/Wrightstown, Wisconsin to pick up Shelby's and DeAnna's two Boston terriers to babysit while they are celebrating the start of Shelby's 7th year being in remission on the beaches of Antigua. I love helping them out but I must admit driving to Ohare airport was no picnic. Thank god for the GPS system that a friend let me borrow. Needless to say I will be buying one very soon, and without it I would have never made it through Chicago or the Port of Milwaukee. On a second note, on my return trip I have figured out how to avoid the bigger cities when setting up the GPS. I can't imagine what the wireless world will bring us Ten years from now. Marea, I'm sending an e-mail your way. Debbie, remember what I told you about sending to me. YOU ARE NOT TO GO OVERBOARD! I will be working on your box just as soon as I get back from Green bay/Wrightstown on the 9th. This is my only day off and the two little devils are no help in the garden at all. All they do is whine, cry, bark and go from window to window while I'm out side. I can hear them fussing all the way out back with the windows open, and this drives me crazy. I've had a great time looking up some of the iris everyone is getting and will have to list them on my want list. Hello to everyone else! I hope you are having a great Sunday. LIFE IS GOOD, Annie...See MoreRaising Tall Bearded Iris?
Comments (8)If you cut the ends of the rhizomes off they will most likely rot right through, once the inside is exposed to damp. Lime is the best thing to put on the open ends, and you can use this at this time of year, but it will inhibit the uptake of fertiliser, so you do so at the expense of bloom. When I lime my irises in winter it looks like a snowstorm - i am very heavy handed, but I have quite acid soil here, and quite wet heavy clay loam. By adding sand and gypsum and building my beds up considerably higher than they were, i think I may have escaped rot this year. I should mention that my iris beds are built on a flat area over the top of the septic drainage beds, so i have a particularly difficult situation. You don't say whether your soil is sandy or heavy? Do you have some idea of the acidity? You can use dolomite instead of garden lime, and it does not change the pH as much. I don't use any formulas, just a general idea - for a bed 2 railway sleepers (9ft) long and 1 sleeper wide, I added a small trailer load of sand and 1/2 of manure. Gypsum had to be put on quite heavy - probably 1/4 cm thick all over. Then I rotary hoed it all in, and mounded the soil in rows - 6 rows across each bed roughly 60cm wide, with a depression between of course. Each raised row is planted with a double row of bearded iris - I fit around 80 clumps to each large bed. To cut back on weeding I filled the depression with pea straw, which does unfortunately harbour fungal spores and contribute to leaf spotting, but it is easier to strip off than bark chips, when I re-make the bed. I also rotate my iris beds with vegetable beds. I find this is helping considerably. 2 years with irises, 1 with vegies. Doesn't work with everyone of course, because of the space needed. I am working more towards growing my irises in with other plants, but with over 500 varieties, that is not an easy option for me....See MoreCan I grow Tall Bearded Iris in 9a?
Comments (16)Iris Soc website and vendors have excellent planting advice so Ck them out. My noid (stands for no identification) iris is near base of trees where they get tree canopy shade protection. Iris rhizome planted halfway in the ground, meaning you can see top of rhizome after you've planted. They rot easily so I wouldn't mulch. They will look like they might come off the ground planted that way, but resist the urge to push further down. The recent rains in Houston are prob gonna hurt my bearded iris. LA irises? They are crazy happy ha...See Morebellarosa
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